Democrats should look to this Republican for inspiration
The man who impeached a racist and fought for Black equality MSNBC 1/18/2021 © Anjali Nair Image: Portrait of Thaddeus Stevens with blue overlay against a yellow background Thaddeus Stevens is a name that not nearly enough Americans have heard. It never popped up when I was learning history in school, using textbooks that still described the "carpetbaggers" of Reconstruction-era America as sly Northern villains. Stevens, an early Republican member of the House of Representatives, served in an era when his clear moral stance was often shunned. He was a civil rights icon and the exact kind...